Xuedong Huang
Chief Technology Officer of Zoom; former Azure AI CTO and Technical Fellow at Microsoft
- Chief Technology Officer, Zoom1
Xuedong (X.D.) Huang is chief technology officer at Zoom, where Huang leads the company's AI strategy and services. Before joining Zoom in 2023, Huang worked at Microsoft as Azure AI CTO and technical fellow; Huang began Microsoft's speech technology group in 1993 and led Microsoft AI teams to human parity milestones in speech recognition, machine translation, natural language understanding, and computer vision. Huang is a co-author of the 2014 Microsoft Research report introducing CNTK, the Computational Network Toolkit, and is an IEEE and ACM Fellow and an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.12
Work
Computational Network Toolkit (CNTK) (external site: microsoft.com)Published research
Co-author of "An Introduction to Computational Networks and the Computational Network Toolkit" (Microsoft Research technical report MSR-TR-2014-112), which describes CNTK, a toolkit for describing and training learning machines such as deep and recurrent neural networks on GPUs and CPUs.2
Microsoft speech and AI human parity milestones
Began Microsoft's speech technology group in 1993 and led Microsoft's AI teams to human parity milestones in speech recognition, machine translation, natural language understanding, and computer vision, according to Zoom's leadership page.1
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